Mood Lighting for the '90s
Includes 12 Million Colors

Updated Aug. 8, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

Artemide, a cutting-edge Italian home-design company, has created what it hopes will become the lava lamp of the '90s -- only it's quite a few shades more expensive.

Like lava lamps, which came into their home-decorating own amid the drug-induced haze of the 1970s, the bizarre Metamorfosi lamps, which flickered onto the scene this spring, are designed as much to be seen as to see by. The lamps, which come in 10 different designer...